I work for an ISP. I help run the DSL deployment department.
And that is exactly how they feel. They pay more for a DSL customer. They keep getting more DSL customers. The sales machine for DSL is working and if its not broke, don't fix it.
I've been an ISP Systems Administrator that has gone through the ICA process with consultants, lawyers, CFOs, etc.
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Over $500k to become operational.
First step: Get a CLEC consultant to help with the ICA.
Second step: Get a lawyer.
Third step: Spend all your money on what the consultant says.
The large portion of the technical end is the switch (most likely a softswitch if you're worried about money) which are around $300k. The rest will be in facilities and personnel.
"EIOffice 2004 puts a word processor, presentation package and spreadsheet into a single application, not a collection of programs. The integration is smooth and deep, and there's a natural feel to the way it all works together."
Is it good enough to never need OLE?
And yet it still has the fatal flaw of no database program.
Build an office suite with a file based database with a GUI and then you can start to attack the MS Access component of MS Office. Until then, you're replicating Star-Office and OpenOffice for some reason (and then trying to sell it for $149 USD on top of that).
Of course it has to be run like a business. No one doubts that. But the pendulum has swung way to far. No one in the industry cares about music and are treating it merely, strictly, and only has a widget.
You have to treat business like business. You can't start saying, well I like this artist/album/song better so lets put more money into it. Sure the artist is fat ugly and unpopular but its a great artist/album/song. We may lose money but oh well!
Like I said, back when radio had much looser formats, back when the music industry loved music, back when it didn't matter what you looked like but how you performed, the music industry did better. Obviously either the current music industry has to collapse or the pendulum has to shift back.
control of information regulates popularity.
before you could see the artist, it was all about sound.
before you could jump on the artist's web page and see what they were all about, it was all about look sound and presentation.
but what is it now?
and once again, i'm not a fan of what the situation is. but i understand why it is and why its not going to change (for a while at least).
and don't give me bullshit about them not dropping because we all know that if it was legal, there would be no reason to purchase pre-recorded music. maybe a live-cd from some gig, but there would be unlimited FREE availability of all music and no reason to spend money on it. it would be cheaper to buy cable/xdsl/satellite broadband and download 10 cds than to purchase 10 cds a month.
also, i'm not saying capitalism is the greatest thing since sliced bread, that greed is good, but it IS a fact of life (in the good ole USA at least). people are motivated by money/cars/jewelry/houses etc. the image of success is RICH. bar none. so its hard to get out of the 'Recording Industry' mindset and back to play it because you love it.
B. don't worry about money fewer artists work their ass off. there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. there is no motivation to make yourself a better artist. you can say to get chicks, to satisfy your fans, blah blah.. but in the end the guy would be too busy working and paying for his music equipment and mortgage to produce a good amount of quality music.
"the one reason the music industry died is . period." ??
and ALL of them are different reasons?
maybe its a combination of shitty music, greedy record companies, greedy musicians, drugs, cmdrtaco, drm, napster, filesharing in its many forms, mtv, britney spears, lack of innovation, disney, lawyers, riaa,....
get the point? there's no 1 reason the recording industry is in the current state that it is.
and think about this... Recording... INDUSTRY...
one more time... Recording... INDUSTRY...
notice that second word: INDUSTRY
They operate like a business would because they are a business and their main purpose is to make money. They may do it the sleazy way but hey thats BUSINESS.
Besides, there are plenty of indie bands (the mindset, not the genre) that work their ass off and distribute their own music and such. You just have to look harder because all that is advertised is the hot product from the Recording INDUSTRY.
The goal of the project, funded by Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Missiles and Fire Control group (Orlando, Fla.), "was to help our soldiers detect improvised explosives or even chemical weapons from a distance far enough away so that they would not be hurt," even if the material detonated, said Greg Ivey, an aerospace-engineering student who graduated from Gainesville this month. A soldier with a laptop computer can monitor the projectile from up to 240 feet away.
Wouldn't this be a great combo for small biotech creations? Pictures, chemical analysis, sample collection etc. would be a snap!
(fairly) Remote analysis of questionable objects would be a snap if you shot the device on it, enabled it with your wireless remote, and waited until it reported fully to your laptop.
It used to be $10 for: no physical goods no cost to distribute no shipping
Why the hell did they agree to $10 if they actually needed 170% of that price to make money?
SIMPLE: They see this as a huge potential to make themselves richer and GREED is driving them to ruin a perfectly good product in a market it (iTunes) was in control of.
JV: Let's say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
Has ANYONE heard of your rights end where mine begin?
Taking away someone else's rights is NOT your right.
It sucks that pirates use stuff to copy their overpriced pieces of round plastic... but I have the right to play a DVD in linux, build an HDTV, etc. as long as I don't steal content. They shouldn't be able to take that away from me just because its a convenient and easy way for them to fight to protect RIAA/MPAA materials.
has this guy been accused of increasing the prices of his product (for no good reason)? does he have a monopolistic hold of the airwaves and the mainstream? does he go after people that use his art (not for profit..) and sue them? does he lobby the US government in order to make unconstituional laws that protect their monopolistic position?
I agree it could be a rat bastard stiffling approach but it may be a "get us in the ground floor of this market as early as possible" approach. They may see E85 (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) as an upcoming market that they would like to dominate.
Most all cars since 1998 have been able to run on it (E85) but its just not readily available.
What free business apps are you running now? What purpose do they server? How did you get some company to make you closed source business apps for free?
show my company how to use this damn Linux thing, and you find, install, and train us on business apps that are as good as the ones we have now.
The longer you stick to these proprietary software solutions, and the longer you keep on having custom platform-specific solutions built for you, the worse off you are. It's not Linux Torvald's fault that you stuck yourself with proprietary software. You made the mess, if you want out, you get yourself out.
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I work for an ISP. I help run the DSL deployment department.
And that is exactly how they feel. They pay more for a DSL customer. They keep getting more DSL customers. The sales machine for DSL is working and if its not broke, don't fix it.
... go into politics.
Most likely they didn't replace the switch. They setup a DSLAM and REDBACK then routed that into their current switch.
Get in touch with your state's ISP association and get setup to resell DSL for all the larger Telco's.
No sir.
I've been an ISP Systems Administrator that has gone through the ICA process with consultants, lawyers, CFOs, etc.
Over $500k to become operational.
First step: Get a CLEC consultant to help with the ICA.
Second step: Get a lawyer.
Third step: Spend all your money on what the consultant says.
The large portion of the technical end is the switch (most likely a softswitch if you're worried about money) which are around $300k. The rest will be in facilities and personnel.
Good luck. Most of them just go out of business.
"EIOffice 2004 puts a word processor, presentation package and spreadsheet into a single application, not a collection of programs. The integration is smooth and deep, and there's a natural feel to the way it all works together."
Is it good enough to never need OLE?
And yet it still has the fatal flaw of no database program.
Build an office suite with a file based database with a GUI and then you can start to attack the MS Access component of MS Office. Until then, you're replicating Star-Office and OpenOffice for some reason (and then trying to sell it for $149 USD on top of that).
Of course it has to be run like a business. No one doubts that. But the pendulum has swung way to far. No one in the industry cares about music and are treating it merely, strictly, and only has a widget.
You have to treat business like business. You can't start saying, well I like this artist/album/song better so lets put more money into it. Sure the artist is fat ugly and unpopular but its a great artist/album/song. We may lose money but oh well!
Like I said, back when radio had much looser formats, back when the music industry loved music, back when it didn't matter what you looked like but how you performed, the music industry did better. Obviously either the current music industry has to collapse or the pendulum has to shift back.
control of information regulates popularity.
before you could see the artist, it was all about sound.
before you could jump on the artist's web page and see what they were all about, it was all about look sound and presentation.
but what is it now?
and once again, i'm not a fan of what the situation is. but i understand why it is and why its not going to change (for a while at least).
so you're saying
A. don't run it like a business
removes lawyers, remove big money promotion, file trading goes rampant, sales drop.
and don't give me bullshit about them not dropping because we all know that if it was legal, there would be no reason to purchase pre-recorded music. maybe a live-cd from some gig, but there would be unlimited FREE availability of all music and no reason to spend money on it. it would be cheaper to buy cable/xdsl/satellite broadband and download 10 cds than to purchase 10 cds a month.
also, i'm not saying capitalism is the greatest thing since sliced bread, that greed is good, but it IS a fact of life (in the good ole USA at least). people are motivated by money/cars/jewelry/houses etc. the image of success is RICH. bar none. so its hard to get out of the 'Recording Industry' mindset and back to play it because you love it.
B. don't worry about money
fewer artists work their ass off. there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. there is no motivation to make yourself a better artist. you can say to get chicks, to satisfy your fans, blah blah.. but in the end the guy would be too busy working and paying for his music equipment and mortgage to produce a good amount of quality music.
that everyone is posting :
....
:-D
"the one reason the music industry died is . period." ??
and ALL of them are different reasons?
maybe its a combination of shitty music, greedy record companies, greedy musicians, drugs, cmdrtaco, drm, napster, filesharing in its many forms, mtv, britney spears, lack of innovation, disney, lawyers, riaa,
get the point? there's no 1 reason the recording industry is in the current state that it is.
and think about this...
Recording... INDUSTRY...
one more time...
Recording... INDUSTRY...
notice that second word:
INDUSTRY
They operate like a business would because they are a business and their main purpose is to make money. They may do it the sleazy way but hey thats BUSINESS.
Besides, there are plenty of indie bands (the mindset, not the genre) that work their ass off and distribute their own music and such. You just have to look harder because all that is advertised is the hot product from the Recording INDUSTRY.
Hey theres that word again...
rant over.. sorry for the caffeine overdose
The goal of the project, funded by Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Missiles and Fire Control group (Orlando, Fla.), "was to help our soldiers detect improvised explosives or even chemical weapons from a distance far enough away so that they would not be hurt," even if the material detonated, said Greg Ivey, an aerospace-engineering student who graduated from Gainesville this month. A soldier with a laptop computer can monitor the projectile from up to 240 feet away.
Wouldn't this be a great combo for small biotech creations?
Pictures, chemical analysis, sample collection etc. would be a snap!
(fairly) Remote analysis of questionable objects would be a snap if you shot the device on it, enabled it with your wireless remote, and waited until it reported fully to your laptop.
it would be nice if they had an "ask the pro's" section so I didn't have to see this type stuff. :-/
It looks like a black box with "VAIO" on it.
Damnit man lets give them an award!
I didn't expect a .1 version of any emulator to be superfast.
;-)
It should get better. Especially when a couple more developers jump into it
I don't see them killing the project. Its got legitimate uses (and too many to legally be shutdown).
;-)
I'm very excited though. It will be a great day when I see a dual 3ghz+ x86 machine running OS X
Agreed.
I think I just stopped buying music online.
It used to be $10 for:
no physical goods
no cost to distribute
no shipping
Why the hell did they agree to $10 if they actually needed 170% of that price to make money?
SIMPLE:
They see this as a huge potential to make themselves richer and GREED is driving them to ruin a perfectly good product in a market it (iTunes) was in control of.
JV: Let's say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
Has ANYONE heard of your rights end where mine begin?
Taking away someone else's rights is NOT your right.
It sucks that pirates use stuff to copy their overpriced pieces of round plastic... but I have the right to play a DVD in linux, build an HDTV, etc. as long as I don't steal content. They shouldn't be able to take that away from me just because its a convenient and easy way for them to fight to protect RIAA/MPAA materials.
has this guy been accused of increasing the prices of his product (for no good reason)?
;-)
does he have a monopolistic hold of the airwaves and the mainstream?
does he go after people that use his art (not for profit..) and sue them?
does he lobby the US government in order to make unconstituional laws that protect their monopolistic position?
apples and oranges my friend
by the balls!
If I were him I'd play my cards right and ask for a ridiculous amount of preferred stock in order for them to not get sued.
no Linux is still working on the implementation of TCP... its not well documented enough so they have to reverse engineer it
(-:
I agree it could be a rat bastard stiffling approach but it may be a "get us in the ground floor of this market as early as possible" approach. They may see E85 (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) as an upcoming market that they would like to dominate.
Most all cars since 1998 have been able to run on it (E85) but its just not readily available.
What free business apps are you running now? What purpose do they server? How did you get some company to make you closed source business apps for free?
show my company how to use this damn Linux thing, and you find, install, and train us on business apps that are as good as the ones we have now.
The longer you stick to these proprietary software solutions, and the longer you keep on having custom platform-specific solutions built for you, the worse off you are. It's not Linux Torvald's fault that you stuck yourself with proprietary software. You made the mess, if you want out, you get yourself out.
Foo
we could just outsource our voting :-T
They renamed the 400mbps+ USB to IEEE1394 ;-D